My Mighty Steed - At the age of 15!

[Famine]

People crack me up here.. It's your car, if you want to lower it by 60mm (which, at the end of the day, isn't really a lot) go ahead.. In my eyes, wheels and drop makes a car, then you can start doing things..

If it'd been a 'sporty' model from the factory, you want to be able to drive it hard and not compromise by lowering it too much or anything, but it's not.. In fact, I'd say all of you are looking at it the wrong way.. It's not a fast car, it's a 1.1, so it'd be a perfect cruiser slammed on it's ass with a set of wide wheels to fill the arches.

I've owned a Mk3 Fiesta 1.1. It'd not cruise anywhere and if you put wide wheels on it, it'd no longer be able to move under its own power.

The "slammed on its ass"/fat wheel look is overplayed and makes you look like you're driving a rollerskate with 400lb of concrete in the boot. Case in point:

I think your car looks utterly retarded and I would point and laugh at it if it came down my street, but there are people who like that look. If you like it, it doesn't really matter what anyone else thinks.

Similarly, if benzoboy wants to do all these things to his car, it doesn't matter what the rest of us think. We can only advise - and having owned three Mk3 Fiestas I can say without hesitation that it is just a tin box starter car that happens to be quite fun to drive. If he were to do to it what you have done to your car he would ruin what plus points it has and he'd look ridiculous.

 

[eiriksmil]

If I drove down a street and you stood there laughing and pointing, I'd give you a polite smile back and drive on, I don't need or expect anyone to appreciate it It makes me happy, and like you said, that's what's important.

 

[Famine]

If I drove down a street and you stood there laughing and pointing, I'd give you a polite smile back and drive on, I don't need or expect anyone to appreciate it It makes me happy, and like you said, that's what's important.

Which is half the point. The other half is that what makes you happy is not necessarily what makes someone else happy. When we - the people who crack you up - advise a 15 year old kid not to throw money unnecessarily at his first car, and not to spoil its sharp handling with a generic "slammed to the deck", wide wheel look, we're not doing so because that look wouldn't make us happy, but because compromising his car dynamically (and hfs and I have 4 Fiestas and 15 years of Fiesta ownership between us - a 60mm drop and wide wheels would ruin it) just for looks is not especially likely to make him happy.

Of course it might. He is entirely free to ignore our advice and beat his own path - I'm not going to ship up to his house and threaten him with a hammer until he acquiesces. What an individual does with his or her own car is his or her own business - which is why I never post in your threads about your cars. All we can do is tell him what the consequences of some of his planned modifications will be. As can you.

We might "crack you up", but we've driven that car on these roads. He'll regret a 60mm drop on a Mk3 Fiesta every day (well... once he can drive on his 17th birthday at least).

 

[opladener]

Like I said before, you might wanna think about how much sense it makes to spend money to mod a 250 pound car. I wouldn't put any money in that thing, rather save the money for the next car.

I mean, seriously, 250 pounds. Not to sound arrogant, but a set of decent tires costs more than that. Drive it 'till the wheels fall of and move on to the next one.